Questions tagged [funding]
Use this tag for questions related to the funding of political groups, movements or projects. If your question relates to funds provided by governments, use the [public-funding] tag.
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Does Kataib Hezbollah get any funding from the government of Iraq?
I am curious what it means exactly that PMF forces (including Kataib Hezbollah) are
designated [...] as an "independent military formation" within the Iraqi armed forces.
Do they actually ...
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How much is Lithuania paying/cost-sharing for the US troop presence in their country?
It's been suggested in some comments (and now an answer) to a related Q that the US is expected to demand lest cost sharing from Germany than from South Korea, for US troop presence, because Germany ...
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Why is Europe (Germany in particular) apparently paying so little for US troop presence/protection, compared to South Korea?
CNBC wrote in that 2020 about the cost-sharing agreement for US troop presence in South Korea
In the last one-year, cost-sharing agreement, Seoul agreed to pay roughly $900 million and in ...
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Can Biden disburse 100 million dollars to the Palestinians as aid from already approved programs, or does he have to go to Congress for approval?
According to VOA:
In his remarks, Biden said Israel had agreed that humanitarian assistance could begin to move from Egypt into Gaza and announced $100 million in U.S. aid for Palestinians. He vowed ...
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How does the EU decide involvement for conflict prevention, peace and stability for a specific case?
According to this archived map the EU is and has been involved in many projects under the Service for Foreign Policy Instruments (FPI) umbrella.
A fraction of these projects are related to Conflict ...
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What is the current status of EU payments to Poland (2022-11)?
During a discussion with Polish acquaintances about the current situation in Poland, the topic of EU payments was raised for a moment. The core of the discussion was about the war in Ukraine and I ...
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Does the GOP actually have a formal 'neutrality policy' that this unnamed RNC official describes?
This answer to Why would a former US president's announcement of a reelection bid cut off legal defense funds? in toto:
From the July 28, 2022 Yahoo article, by Cheryl Teh, The RNC has been helping ...
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Soviet funding for Communists
Russia has spent over $300 million on influencing foreign elections since 2014, US officials say
How does this amount compare with the money that the USSR spent on supporting various communist parties ...
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How and to what extent did lobbyists contribute to Trump/Pence's "next man and first woman" to the Moon? (via Artemis and Commercial Crew programs)
When I first saw the title to Ars Technica's May 16, 2022 Former NASA leaders praise Boeing’s willingness to risk commercial crew I thought it suggested that Boeing and it's troubled Boeing_Starliner ...
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Who supports funding of the "Big Three" and who supports funding of NASA?
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A look at this graph (source: Wikipedia), especially after the "Billionaire Space Race", is interesting. We see that the funding for NASA increased somewhere around the moon ...
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How to split vote-based funding in the case of multi-party electoral lists?
In designing a system of public funding for political parties, I want part of this funding to reward electoral performance. In order to avoid fairly reward each party, the amount of funding is based ...
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Does Black Lives Matter have a hierarchy?
Recently, there has been a lot of news which discusses the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement. Does BLM have a leader? What is the organization structure, and who directs the protests?
I have been ...
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How much, in taxes, does a typical American taxpayer pay toward public libraries?
I'm looking for an average or estimation of how much money public libraries cost a typical American taxpayer.
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What kind of project[s] did the US finance at the Wuhan BSL-4 lab?
The Daily Mail has their usual kind of unclear/clickbait article headlined "U.S. government gave $3.7million grant to Wuhan lab at center of coronavirus leak scrutiny that was performing ...
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Why is the United States voluntarily funding the World Health Organization 60 times more than China?
I read on https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-14/trump-says-he-s-halting-payments-to-who-for-data-sharing-failure:
The U.S. has contributed about $893 million to the WHO’s operations ...
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